"Latin American Scheherazade ": translation and reception of Isabel Allende in the Middle east

Abstract

The research carried out with this article focuses on analyzing the aspects of the reception of Isabel Allende and the dissemination of her works in Arabic that have not been treated in a study to date. Through the following analysis, it is intended to show the reactions of the Arab recipients through a limited corpus of writers, academics or litterateur in order to have a general idea about the impact that Allende has caused on them. This study also intends to collect the publication of the author's works that have been translated into the Arabic language, the translators who translate her works into that language, the publishers who published them and the situation of the intellectual property rights of the translated works, in general, and those of Allende, in particular. All these points have the objective of reflecting the impact and literary repercussion of the Chilean author in a geographical space as extensive as the Arab world.

Key words: Latin-American’s literature, reception of Allende, Arabic translation of Allende works, authors copyrights, Allende impacts in Arab intellectual reader.